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  • The malicious smile, the “perfidum ridens,” is another thing; being the joy which is excited by the humiliation of another.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Old MacEuan who hass the second sight saw a vision in the night of Cumberland's ridens driving over a field lost to the North.

    A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • Mount Eryx, as every one knows, was in classical times famous for the worship of Venus: here stood perhaps the most celebrated of all her temples -- the one with which her name is most familiarly associated -- and here, long before Horace wrote of "Erycina ridens," she was worshipped as

    Diversions in Sicily Henry Festing Jones 1889

  • Another of her acts is to put up her forefinger to my mouth, to be kissed; and often she puts up her own mouth for a kiss, and then smiles with an expression of covert fun -- sub ridens, her father calls it.

    Memories of Hawthorne Rose Hawthorne Lathrop 1888

  • The goddess of his worship is not Venus Urania, pale, dreamy, spiritual, but _Erycina ridens, quam Jocus circum volat et Cupido, _ who comes

    Horace Theodore Martin 1862

  • -- Keener animosities produced keener titles: "Heraclitus ridens" found an antagonist in "Democritus ridens," and "The Weekly Discoverer" was shortly met by "The Discoverer stript naked."

    Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) Isaac Disraeli 1807

  • I have lived a 'Deist', what I shall die I know not; however, come what may, 'ridens moriar'.

    The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

  • Man, in his defining essence, was both animal syllogans and animal ridens - the creature who reasons, and the creature who laughs.

    Boston Globe -- Ideas section James Parker 2010

  • Dum te, mea cura, catTpo Perfidum ridens bibulo ministrat 30

    Musæ etonenses: [Herbert, William, dean of Manchester], 1778-1847, [from old catalog] ed 1795

  • Congruic aim hoc fen/ii Terlus Ennii: lUe triftis cibum dumfervat; tu ridens voras.

    Publii Terentii Afri Comoediae sex novissime recognitae cum selecta varietate lectionum et ... 1779

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